N.G. Public Service

THE following staff changes in the New Guinea Administration were gazetted in Bulletin No. 45: — Appointments: Miss Eileen Owers, Nurse, Public Health Dept.; Miss Clare Eda Berge, Nurse, Public Health Dept.

Acting Appointments: J. Walstab, Acting Direc tor of District Services and Native Affairs; E.

A. Feldt, Acting Warden (Morobe Goldfields).

Promotions: A. J. Streathearn, Clerk (£3OO - to Clerk (£354-£444), Govt. Secretary’s Dept.; B. W. Brazier, Clerk (£3OO-408) to Clerk (£354-£444), District Services Dept.; E. J. Slee, Clerk (£3OO-£408) to Clerk (£354-£444), District Services Dept. Cadets to be Patrol Officers: K. W. Bilston, J. R. Black, T. G. Aitchison, H.

G. Verey, M. S. Edwards, G. Greathead, L. G.

Vial, R. B. Strudwick, J. Hepburn. P. E. R. Coe, Clerk (£3OO-£408) to Clerk (£354-£444), Customs Dept.; R. A. Bird, Clerk (£3OO-£408) to Clerk (£354-£444), Customs Dept.

Transfers: E. M. Hawnt, Mechanic and Lines Foreman, Wau to Rabaul; A. B. Gilroy, Medical Officer, Madang to Rabaul; C. M. Pines, Medical Assistant, Rabaul to Salamaua; G. H. McQueen, Medical Officer, Wewak to Madang; R. B. McVilly, Acting P. 0., Salamaua to Rabaul; C. G. Bowman, Clerk, District Services Dept., Salamaua to Rabaul; M. S. Edwards, P. 0,. Rabaul to Salamaua; A. A. Roberts, P. 0., Rabaul to Salamaua; T. G.

Aitchison, P. 0., Rabaul to Salamaua; L. G. Vial, P. 0., Rabaul to Salamaua; K. W. Bilston. P. 0., Rabaul to Wewak; C. W. Barnes, Clerk, District Services Dept., Rabaul to Kavieng; A. F. Kyle, Acting A.D.0., Wewak to Rabaul; C. H. Mac lean, Clerk, District Services Dept., Kavieng to Salamaua; J. I. Merrylees, A.D.0., Rabaul to Kieta; H. E. Hamilton, Acting P. 0., Wewak to Rabaul; A. M. Ryan, Clerk, District Services Dept., Kavieng to Rabaul; W. McG. Pestell, Inspector, Agriculture Dept., Rabaul to Kavieng.

Temporary Appointments: Govt. Secretary’s Dept.: Miss V. Thwaite, Typist. Public Health Dept.: Miss J. M. Cox, Nurse. District Services Dept.: E. C. Arthur, Storeman, Wau; Miss E.

Page, Typiste, Kavieng; G. M. Broad, Clerk, Wau.

Public Works Dept.: L. J. S. Reid, Roadmaster, Madang.

Police Force Transfers: S. Reilly, Warrant Officer, 2nd Class, Wau to Salamaua; A. M.

Sinclair, Warrant Officer, 2nd Class, Rabaul to Kokopo; N. B. Blood, Warrant Officer, 2nd Class, Kokopo to Rabaul.

Miss Moira Hennessey, of Thursday Island, was married in December to Rev.

J. Housden, 8.A., L.Th., Hector of Dar win, Northern Territory.

Mr. William H. Carpenter, of Messrs.

W. R. Carpenter and Co., Ltd., arrived in Sydney from Rabaul by the Montoro on December 18, after a business visit to New Guinea.

Mr. W. R. Fell, Sub-Inspector in the Police Department of Western Samoa, sailed from Apia on furlough by the December Maui Pomare.